Suhpalacsa orsedice Banks, 1914

Hassan, Muhammad Asghar & Liu, Xingyue, 2021, Taxonomic notes on owlflies from Pakistan (Neuroptera: Myrmeleontidae Ascalaphinae), Zootaxa 4970 (3), pp. 401-452 : 434

Suhpalacsa orsedice Banks, 1914

Suhpalacsa orsedice Banks, 1914: 617 . Type locality: India (West Bengal: Darjeeling, Singla ).

Suhpalacsa orsedicae Banks, 1914 . An incorrect spelling used by Sziráki (1988, 2000).

Diagnosis. Suhpalacsa orsedice can be characterized by the combination of following characters: the head with lower margin of face yellow; the pale brown antenna which becomes darker at apex; thorax dark with slightly pale brown in the middle; abdomen dark in female, but the abdominal tergum in male yellowish, sternum pale with black stripe along the lateral margins; legs black, except brownish proximal margin of femora; wings hyaline, veins brownish; pterostigma brown, as long as wide, with four crossveins in forewing and five in hind wing, and the apical area beyond Sc+R with two rows of cells.

Distribution. Pakistan (Islamabad Capital Territory); India (Arunachal Pradesh, West Bengal), Nepal (Ganesh Himal) ( Banks 1914; Ghosh 1985; Sziráki 2000; Hassan et al. 2019; Oswald 2020).